Today’s Mystery Photo may be too easy for your super sleuths. But let’s give it a whirl. But is this a sleeper to confuse you? Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.
After several Mystery Photos in distance places, we picked a local photo for the recent mystery. First one in with the right answer was Timothy Daly of Snellville, who correctly identified Morgan Falls Dam on the Chattahoochee River in Sandy Springs. The photo came from Jerry Colley of Decatur.
Also identifying the photo was George Graf of Palmyra, Va. He wrote: “Bull Sluice Lake was created by the Morgan Falls Dam. As the water of the Chattahoochee River leaves Morgan Falls Dam, it passes the popular Morgan Falls boat ramp and continues a 436 mile trip to the Gulf of Mexico. It already carries a significant amount of both point-source and non-point source pollution. On the west bank of the river, Johnson Ferry Park, a mile south of Morgan Falls, holds the remnants of what was once a thriving business – the Chattahoochee Outdoors Center. When the United States Geologic Survey began posting the results of bacterialogical tests on a board adjacent to the launch ramp to the Chattahoochee, enough rafters decided not to ‘Shoot the Hooch’ to make the business unprofitable. It closed in 2002 and both the building and parking lot are overgrown. Rafting is still permitted and outfitters near the Chattahoochee River provide services to many customers, but since the Outdoor Center closed the number of people on the river have dropped by 80 percent.”
LAGNIAPPENSDAR chapter recognizes Machida for community service
The Philadelphia Winn Chapter NSDAR Certificate of Award has been presented to Miriam Shindelbower Machida, left, for Excellence in Community Service. Nancy Vaughn, right, presented the award to Ms. Machida. Regent Lydia McGill in background
Miriam promotes literacy by operating her own Little Free Library in her front yard in Duluth. Many neighbors have stopped by to pick up a book. Reading is a passion for Miriam as seen through the Little Free Library and through her work at her church choir library at Duluth First United Methodist Church. Miriam also volunteers for the Gwinnett Historical Society each week at the Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville
She has transcribed minutes for the years of 1833-1869 of Friendship Baptist Church, which was located in the Five Forks community. She also transcribed the 1888 Gwinnett Tax Digest. Miriam has spent many hours for several years indexing the photo albums of the society and keeping the cemetery records up to date. Miriam edited the society’s quarterly newsletter, The Heritage, for two years as well as writing the Philadelphia Winn Chapter Newsletter for several years.
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